Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Mullaghmore South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghmore South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45496, -8.59866
- SMR number
- GA045-039----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level farmland within a hollow. Poorly preserved rectangular area (N-S 13m, E-W 9.5m) delimited by a low bank of earth and stone on N and S sides and elsewhere by a scarp. Within it, a number of a small set stones indicate graves oriented NW-SE. (Claffey 1983, 160)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.